Animals know they are going to be "next"

[Catherine]

This is an interesting article about animals being aware of death and in particular being aware that they are about to be  killed.
They make a good case. Animals on the way to slaughterhouses make desperate escapes. It happens over and over. For some lucky animals there is a rescue and a happy ending. Animals on the way to slaughter seem to know and they are desparate enough to take a chance.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

It implies a high level of awareness and intelligence to take a chance and run like that. Pigs have jumped from moving trucks.
I am sure every species that we routinely kill has stories of daring escapes.
We need to rethink our whole relationship to animals. If they are so aware of life and death then it is a terrible thing to line them up and kill them the way we do.
In many ways our whole relationship to other species  is a terrible thing. There are few animals that we are nice to.